{"nrhp_refnum":"74001589","name":"Paulding County Courthouse","other_names":[],"category":"building","location":{"address":"Courthouse Sq.","address_restricted":false,"city":"Paulding","county":"Paulding County","state":"OH","lat":41.13771779100006,"lon":-84.58013558899995,"geom_source":"nps_gis"},"listed_date":"1974-05-03","is_nhl":false,"nhl_designated_date":null,"areas_of_significance":["Architecture"],"significance_levels":["state"],"summary":{"what_it_is":"A two-and-one-half-story brick county courthouse with a central tower, on Courthouse Square in Paulding, Ohio. It was built from 1886 to 1888 to designs by E. O. Fallis and Company.","why_significant":"The nomination presents it as an excellent example of a brick late Romanesque Revival county courthouse in Ohio. It replaced a circa 1837 frame courthouse on the same square. It is also noted as being in good condition and still serving county government.","narrative":"Paulding County Courthouse sits on Courthouse Square in Paulding, Ohio, the same site as the county's first courthouse, a frame building from about 1837. As the county outgrew that structure, the commissioners had it torn down and hired E. O. Fallis and Company to design a replacement. Construction began in 1886 under general contractor Rudolph Ehrhart of Defiance, and the building was finished and occupied in 1888 at a cost of $40,000. The brick building is roughly sixty feet square, with four similar facades, arched entrances under triple-arched porches, and decoration made mainly of brick corbeling. A round tower with a columned belfry and domed lantern rises about forty feet above the hipped roof. The interior is largely unaltered. Preservation work in 1973 sandblasted and repointed the brick, which removed its original smooth surface. The courthouse is considered an excellent example of late Romanesque Revival county courthouse design in Ohio, and it remains in county government use.","period_of_significance":"19th Century (built 1886-1888)","architect_builder":"E. O. Fallis and Company (architects); Rudolph Ehrhart of Defiance, Ohio (general contractor)","architectural_style":"Late Romanesque Revival","criteria":[],"status_note":"Owned by Paulding County and in government use; condition listed as good. Preservation work began in spring 1973 and was nearly complete at the time of the form, including sandblasting and tuck pointing of the brick and painting of the window sash.","vacant_flag":false,"machine_generated":true,"model":"claude-sonnet-5-5","prompt_version":"v1.0-2026-10-29","generated_at":"2026-10-29 02:53:10.494801-05","source_pdf":"https://s3.amazonaws.com/NARAprodstorage/lz/electronic-records/rg-079/NPS_OH/74001589.pdf"},"photo":{"url_800":"https://nationalhistoricalregister.com/media/74001589/80b5faa3ed-800.webp","url_1600":"https://nationalhistoricalregister.com/media/74001589/80b5faa3ed-1600.webp","licence":"CC BY 2.5","author":"Myself","credit_html":"<a href=\"https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:PauldingOHCourt.jpg\" rel=\"noopener\">Myself</a>, <a href=\"https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/2.5\" rel=\"license noopener\">CC BY 2.5</a>, via Wikimedia Commons","source_page":"https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:PauldingOHCourt.jpg"},"district":{"nrhp_refnum":"100010114","name":"Paulding Downtown Historic District","url":"https://nationalhistoricalregister.com/districts/ohio/paulding-downtown-historic-district-100010114/"},"sources":{"nps_snapshot_date":"2026-05-22","nara_catalog":"https://catalog.archives.gov/id/71990855","wikipedia":"https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Paulding_County_Courthouse_(Ohio)","wikidata":"https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q14716777"},"indexable":true,"url":"https://nationalhistoricalregister.com/ohio/paulding-county/paulding-county-courthouse-74001589/"}